Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |
| 2 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |
| 3 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 4 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 5 | No I 'm not : first I 'm going to wander round Bristol and try and get myself a job , then I 'm going to persuade the manager to give me an advance of a few pounds so I can get myself something to eat and find somewhere to stay . |
| 6 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 7 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 8 | I promised him I 'd pass it on to his relatives if I could find them , anyway keep it safe in case he managed to get out too . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , Laura , I really need to be clear about one or two things before I can see my way forward . ’ |
| 10 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 11 | have to start making guesses when I can smell it . |
| 12 | I like looking in shop windows so I can take my time if I 'm on my own . |
| 13 | I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute . |
| 14 | Last term , all through the Coronation festivities , all through the exams , I longed for the holidays when I would see her . |
| 15 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 16 | In his last letter he wrote : ‘ The world and I shake hands for I dare affirm we are heartily weary of each other . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A good many times before I 'd believe you . |
| 18 | I then noticed how large the Wrasse had grown , snatching the food from my fingers before I could offer it to my other fish . |
| 19 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 20 | What do I have to have someone to collect the hours before I can claim it ? |
| 21 | Can someone give me a list of these nicknames so I can know who is being discussed . |
| 22 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 23 | Erm so I was there , at the odd occasions when I can give you a lift up but the they 'll be very odd . |